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David Needell

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When Inspiration Strikes

Submitted to Contest #152

Humans have always believed their ideas to be, well, their own. And given their limited sensory inputs and primitive cognitive functions, who could blame them? After all, if humans could grapple with the concept of an ethereal, hyper-dimensional agent tasked with bestowing femtosecond, ineffable sparks of inspiration, the very existence of said agent would be, as a result, superfluous. Alas, humans are limited—trust me, I should know. Whether igniting an ember via exothermic friction, sketching the double helix structure, der...

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